/give @p written_book{pages:['{"text":"MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY\n\n[From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels]\n\nA spectre is haunting Europe\u2014the spectre of Communism.\nAll the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to"}','{"text":"exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot,\nFrench Radicals and German police-spies.\n\nWhere is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the"}','{"text":"Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?\n\nTwo things result from this fact."}','{"text":"I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.\n\nII. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery"}','{"text":"tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.\n\nTo this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French,"}','{"text":"German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.\n\nI. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS\n\nThe history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.\nFreeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,"}','{"text":"guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a"}','{"text":"revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.\n\nIn the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold"}','{"text":"gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, "}','{"text":"subordinate gradations.\n\nThe modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new"}','{"text":"forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, th
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